Adults Only: Serenity Bay on Castaway Cay

One of my favorite places on earth is Castaway Cay – the private island Disney owns and uses solely for Disney Cruise Guests. My favorite spot on this favorite island is Serenity Bay: the adults-only stretch of amazing beach, snorkeling area, bar, and restaurant. As per usual, Melissa wrote a more-extensive post on her blog and I shared tons of photos and videos (my first!) below.

Areas of Serenity Bay are broken up in separate galleries below. Click on any of the photos to enlarge them and please enjoy!
-ADA@AtDisneyAgain

The beautiful, beautiful adults-only Serenity Bay beach. I cannot encourage you enough to enlarge the photos for amazing detail:

Relax. Enjoy.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Stay out!

The local bar – Castaway Air Bar – right on Serenity Bay’s shoreline. You can walk up or a server will come around and take your order while you relax the day away in your lounge chair.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

Relax. Enjoy.

The local bar – Castaway Air Bar – right on Serenity Bay’s shoreline. You can walk up or a server will come around and take your order while you relax the day away in your lounge chair. Construction was underway to expand the patio in July 2015.

Relax. Enjoy.

The tram stop is at the end of the runway.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

Relax. Enjoy.

Windsock rentals.

Keep out!

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

Private cabana.

Relax. Enjoy.

Beware of low-flying planes… This sign got impaled.

Hammock detail.

Lifeguard parking.

The local bar – Castaway Air Bar – right on Serenity Bay’s shoreline. You can walk up or a server will come around and take your order while you relax the day away in your lounge chair.

You never know who you’ll meet on Castaway Cay.

A local tern looks for lunch.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

Welcome to heaven.

The local bar – Castaway Air Bar – right on Serenity Bay’s shoreline. You can walk up or a server will come around and take your order while you relax the day away in your lounge chair.

The tram stop is at the end of the runway.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

The local bar – Castaway Air Bar – right on Serenity Bay’s shoreline. You can walk up or a server will come around and take your order while you relax the day away in your lounge chair.

Windsock rentals.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

The tram stop is at the end of the runway.

The tram stop is at the end of the runway.

Relax. Enjoy.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

Relax. Enjoy.

Castaway Air provides transportation to all parts of Castaway Cay.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Relax. Enjoy.

Drink of the day.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

Relax. Enjoy.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

One of our amazing servers from the Castaway Air Bar, taking orders on the beach.

Hammock detail.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

Welcome to Serenity Bay.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

A local tern looks for lunch.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Relax. Enjoy.

A local tern looks for lunch.

Relax. Enjoy.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

Relax. Enjoy.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Relax. Enjoy.

A local tern looks for lunch.

Relax. Enjoy.

Windsock rentals.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

Relax. Enjoy.

The tram stop is at the end of the runway.

The tram stop is at the end of the runway.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

A local tern looks for lunch.

Relax. Enjoy.

Castaway Air provides transportation to all parts of Castaway Cay.

The local bar – Castaway Air Bar – right on Serenity Bay’s shoreline. You can walk up or a server will come around and take your order while you relax the day away in your lounge chair.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

You never know who you’ll meet on Castaway Cay.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

Relax. Enjoy.

Private cabana.

Relax. Enjoy.

The runway separates Serenity Bay from the rest of Castaway Cay.

Castaway Air Bar.

Relax. Enjoy.

Bucket of water. Always hydrate.

Cabana check in.

Cabanas.

A local tern looks for lunch.

Relax. Enjoy.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

The local bar – Castaway Air Bar – right on Serenity Bay’s shoreline. You can walk up or a server will come around and take your order while you relax the day away in your lounge chair.

Drink up, me hearty!

Windsock rentals.

Windsock rentals.

Exploring in the water – as a former reef aquarium keeper, I loved this.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

Melissa’s cruise-themed manicure.

Airplanes and parts of airplanes litter the runway.

An amazing Cast Member lent me an underwater case for my iPhone so I could take these photos. Unfortunately I cannot tell you who lent it to me, as it’s understandably against some policy. They know who they are and that they are awesome! These photos are mostly of the vehicle dumped at Castaway Cay to attract our fishy friends:

Crystal clear water – both above water and underwater.

Crystal clear water – both above water and underwater.

Walk out the long sand bar to the dive site – marked by a large white buoy.

Goes on for miles.

Panoramic.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Underwater wreckage, populated with jacks, damselfish, urchins, and many other fish that I’ve had in my living room reef in the past.

Love seeing these fish school and interact.

Amazing.

Crystal clear water – both above water and underwater.

Crystal clear water – both above water and underwater.

Just hanging out on the bottom.

Sandbar leading to the dive buoy.

Crystal clear water – both above water and underwater.

This is the ACTUAL color scheme captured by the phone – I color corrected most of the photos to better reflect what my eyes saw.